Girl Who Escaped Opens Up: Boko Haram Rapés Us Everyday
One of the abducted girls who managed to escape made this shocking revelations.
According Daily Mirror, “Families of the schoolgirls, aged between 15 to 18, are certain their daughters are now being used as séx slaves by an extreme sect that has killed 1,500 people since the start of this year alone. They are captives in the wild Sambisa Forest in north-east Nigeria where Boko Haram has a heavily armed camp of bunkers, tunnels, ramshackle buildings and tents.
“One girl who recently escaped following an earlier kidnapping said she was prized as a terror leader’s wife because she had been a virgin. She said young female captives were raped up to 15 times a day, forced to convert to Islam and had their throats cut if they refused.”
Daily Mirror
said that “under President Goodluck Jonathan, the Nigerian government
appears to have done little except issue an entirely false claim that
most of the girls had been rescued by defence forces.”
It quotes Mma Odi, executive director of the Nigerian charity Baobab Women’s Human Rights, as saying:
“It is a very bad situation for those girls. The men went to the school for no other reason than to make them their sex objects. The men will have reduced them to sex slaves, raping them over and over again. And any girl who tries to resist will be shot by them. They have no conscience.
“It is a very bad situation for those girls. The men went to the school for no other reason than to make them their sex objects. The men will have reduced them to sex slaves, raping them over and over again. And any girl who tries to resist will be shot by them. They have no conscience.
“The conditions
will be terrible and it seems like the government has just abandoned
them because they are girls and they are poor. If they were the sons of
the rich, the government would act. Their abductors are not human beings
and if the girls get out they will no longer be normal. They will have
to have years of counselling to recover.”
Also indicting
the Jonathan led administration, Professor Hauwa Biu, a women’s rights
campaigner based at the University of Maiduguri, told Daily Mirror:
“They claim they are on top of the situation, that they are in the bush,
but they are not there. If the government had acted straight away then
they could have followed the gunmen’s footsteps or tyre tracks, but over
the past weeks rain and leaves have fallen, covering them up.
“Meanwhile,
nobody knows what kind of conditions they will be living in the camp. I
cannot think what these girls must be going through. I have been told
that the men feed them and treat them quite well, but we also know that
other girls kidnapped have been highly molested.
“If the government had just acted straight away they could have saved these girls.
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